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Historical
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Copper ScrollA Good Works Translation of the Copper Scroll (3Q15) from Hebrew. A treasure map inscribed on copper, listing sixty-four caches of gold, silver, and sacred vessels hidden across the land of Israel.Historical Text A (4Q248)Cave 4 Hebrew fragment of a historical narrative about Antiochus IV Epiphanes — describing his Egypt campaigns and military depredations in language that directly echoes Daniel 11:36–39.Historical Text A (4Q248) — Source TextHebrew source text for Historical Text A (4Q248) — confirmed apparatus citations from the Qimron composite edition.Historical TextsThree Cave 4 Hebrew manuscripts recording the Hasmonean crisis and Roman conquest — naming Shelamzion (Salome Alexandra), Hyrcanus II, and Aemilius Scaurus alongside the Kittim. The only Dead Sea Scrolls texts that place the Roman arrival in Jerusalem within a sectarian historiographical frame.List of False ProphetsA Good Works Translation of 4Q339 — a unique Cave 4 document listing the false prophets of Israel's scriptural memory, from Balaam to Hananiah ben Azzur.Proto-EstherAramaic Diaspora court narrative from Cave 4 (4Q550) — six fragments set in the Persian royal court, featuring a Jewish courtier and a Persian official navigating the royal bureaucracy. The genre companion to Daniel 1–6.Vision of SamuelA Qumran narrative pesher on 1 Samuel 3 — Samuel's nocturnal vision at Shiloh and the condemnation of Eli's house. The only pesher in the Dead Sea Scrolls corpus to treat a narrative from the historical books.